Speaker
Description
Gravitational waves can affect neutrino oscillation probabilities and
may hence be detectable at neutrino telescopes. We propose a heuristic
model describing the influence of gravitational waves on the propagation
and flavor oscillations of neutrino wave packets.
This model is based on the assumption that at lowest order in the
metric perturbation caused by the gravitational wave only the average
propagation distance of the neutrino system is affected. In combination
with an averaging procedure over the time of data taking of the neutrino
experiment this leads to a damping of the neutrino flavor oscillations, if
certain criteria are met.
Therefore, considering the imprints of gravitational waves in the flavor
transition probabilities of high energy neutrinos from pulsars located in
our Galaxy might pave the way for new discoveries in the quickly expanding
field of multi-messenger astronomy.
